Bagpuss
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No live on a boat and even when I was living in house never really liked frozen meat.
You do know you are supposed to defrost and cook it before consuming?
Edit: Athty there first Hmmpppfff.
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Aren't the rivers are only doing what they always do at this time of year?
You beat me to it!
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Try mixing valerian root with tuna and feeding it to moggy before setting out on a journey whether by boat or car. Valerian is related to Catmint so cats love it and it has a slightly sedative, calming effect on them. This should only be needed the first few times before moggy gets used to journeying, worked a treat with our lad who used to hate cruising with a passion.
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Well ?????????????
Gales... Horizontal Rain... Staring out the window at noon, thinking it would be plain suicide to get my 240 drill out...
I decided against it, became somewhat distracted and then it stopped raining and the sun came out. It was too late by then
Tomorrow morning the BBC reckon it won't be raining during the Archers so it's subject to review... Oft times I am to be found in Ambridge with power tools and strong coffee early on a Sunday morn... (There goes my rock and roll reputation, sorry to disappoint folks).
I did, however, get to Screwfix to buy the other bracket so there's legs tomorrow if the weather forecast is right. If I drill the holes first then that's the only deadly voltage I'll need to use all day.
I was supposed to be on a firewood run tomorrow as well
Damn, I must remember to log out...
love Smelly!
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Shows what happens when you lurk in the VP, the excitement is elsewhere.
Three cheers for the hero of the moment
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i wonder whether we'll ever see this type of thing on lock gear? I didn't get the tip of my finger back...
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Great pics Ange, Hope your head felt better than mine Sunday morning!
We had a lovely weekend too, Might need a little recovery time before the next one tho!
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We can offer cake, bacon and egg (and spam?) sandwiches,
Richard
That sounds like quite a vile sandwich!
I'll be eating cheese and drinking cider in cheddar on Saturday so won't be able to help unfortunately (or fortunately considering the cake and bacon sandwich)
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Worrying that that site refers at some points to tunnel lights based on "spot lights".
Proper "spot lights", (with a powerful beam to the front), are in my view unsuitable as tunnel lights. They blind steerers coming the other way, but still fail to illuminate the tunnel arch near your boat well.
A "fog lamp", makes a much more appropriate tunnel light than a "spot light", as it throws it's light more widely, illuminating the tunnel arch well, without sending a piercing light straight into the eyes of people trying to come the other way.
If you are going to spend a substantial three figure sum, (ouch!), on a tunnel light, please make sure that it casts an appropriate beam.
seconded... oops love Smelly (although I'll bet Bp will third it for the sake of a peaceful life)
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Missed it!
Was it a recipe?
Errr... no.
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It is not always clear when a person is disabled enough to claim DLA/Incapacity Benefit. I am disabled enough that I could have claimed both. I chose not to but that is beside the point.
The point I am trying to make is that, had I claimed, I would probably have had curtain twitching types calling me a benefits cheat and the like as my disability is not 'visible'. Make sure you know the full situation before you make judgements.
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Does the Transport ministry pay the car road fund licence & MOT for those that live in their cars or motor homes whilst unemployed?
No? (they make you remove it from the road)
So why should BW sub boat owners?
If you cant afford it sell it, just like house buyers have to.
Simples.
Life's hard get used to it.
I don't think in such circumstances living in a motorhome can be equated with living on a boat. it is far cheaper and easier to remove a vehicle from the road (for example to a friends drive, farmers field, common ground etc) than it is to remove a boat from the water until the monies have been raised. Also the vehicle is still habitable for this period of time, a boat out of water becomes an extremely dangerous place to enter/exit.
When a home owner suddenly becomes unemployed, for a certain period of time the state will help with mortgage payments. It's been a long time since I worked for the benefits service so I can't remember the exact circumstances but the precedent has been established. Why should a boat owner not qualify for help also?
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Worked for me...
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No. Being Norty means you have to sit on the Norty step in the Virtual Pub.
Richard
The norty step is atop Sarahb's boat in Barrow upon Soar, I know it coz I Soar it yesterday.
On an entirely different note, it seems circuits are being modified without creedence to people suddenly accepting they were wrong which sticks in one's craw slightly...
Despite not having done the alt' surgery yet' having paralleled my alts, with some means of switching it off has meant that I've halved my charge time and there's still loadsa water in all my batteries
Even the dino's are smiling! -
We're all back safe and sound in Barrow again
It was lovely to see/meet everyone and here's hoping that Smelly and BP don't actually go home but move to here
Oh and I have very, very shiney brass!
Unfortunately we have jobs....
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My sister told me that when she was around 12, she and some of her friends were 'hanging around' on the towpath by the north portal of Wast Hills tunnel. They saw a boat just exiting the tunnel then heard a crashing sound and the boat vanished.
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Smelly & Bp,......if you get there first, we intend mooring up on the Barrow side of the junction, NOT the basin!!!! so sharp left through the T junction, then moor up somewhere there? Good towpath a bit on with trees and wide areas to play and poi on! Somewhere about opposite a Beacon Boats floating pontoon on the otherside is good............
sees ya soon!
(presuming you are coming in from Kegworth direction!)
We are here! Lots of boats here too (presumably most are for the national) None we recognize tho
If any other cwdf boats are around, say hello to the purple boat with the kitten bouncing on the back deck!
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Smelly & BP will be coming down that way too. Not sure where they are today , Burton On Trent Tuesday I think.
Currently at Alrewas, cooking potato gratin and tatty salad in preparation for a barbeque
Hoping to hit luff late Thursday/early Friday, Cats willing.
Edited to remove rogue comma.
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The right to allocate and charge moorings arises in common law, much as the right to rent out premises does. It's not a legislative issue so whether to allocate a spot and whether to provide it to red, green, blue or even purple (or aubergine) boats is a matter of contract, should the lessor agree to enter into one in the first place.
I'm not going to google it (I don't need to, it's in common law) but there is, in the 68 Transport Act, license for BW to lay on and/or maintain whatever facilities they so choose I'd imagine that was intended to codify the common law aspect.
I must remember to log out...
Love smelly, who likes kittens as well
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You are entitled to the Winter Fuel Payments if you are over 60 years of age but like many other things (i.e. driving licence, road tax, bank accounts, credit cards, electoral register) you cannot complete the forms without providing a permanent address in the UK and, except where a boat is in a permanent residential mooring, it does not qualify - you can easily get round this by using the address of a close friend or family member - with their permission of course.
You only need to complete a form for a WFP if for some obscure reason such as your being out of the country into September of your 60th year or the Pensions Service/JC+ believing you are dead, otherwise they're automatic.
There is no address requirement for most benefits. The catch is that you often will be required to provide information after the initial claim is complete and they need somewhere to write to. You can claim Pension Credit online or by telephone call using post restante to receive initial correspondence.
In practice we all need somewhere to receive letters and I don't know many who don't
The only evidential requirements for means tested such as Pension Credit are income, capital, ID and NINo (or sufficient information for one to be allocated).
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I don't do pink stripes
But pink stripes would look good on you!
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Now I have been woken up...
My guess is it is the front part of a childs scooter, the two prongs would be attached to the handlebars and the other end to the board, however, I may be wrong.
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Well.... A cassette will be easier to fit on a besom...
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dont see the piont in diconnnecting engine battery once it is fully charged ..the current taken will be very small and if the battery is nearing the end of its life you are risking a non start.
the output from W is high frequency half wave rectified AC and it will not be affected by the action of the voltage regulator ......if you want to disconnect the starter battery why not wrap a few turns of its charge cable wire around a reed relay ......current drops to low level and reed opens.....and that can work a relay ....KISS ....push switch across reed to re set it after the next start ...
I've never heard of a reed relay before... however wrapping the 50mm2 cable around it might perceivably be a challenge.
edit... love Smelly who must check whether he's logged into SWMBO's profile...
BCN Marathon Challenge 2010.......
in General Boating
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Current CWDF expressions of interest for team Sudan (from Smelly's FB) are: Fuzzy, Denboy, Alex, Ange and Daniel luckily Kathleen will be behind us to hold the overflow otherwise we'll have nowhere to put them!
BTW, I'll be team Sudan's chief cook.